Cilantro-Lime
Chicken and Avocado Salsa
Here’s what you need:
Chicken Marinade:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
(I only used two and I cut them into smaller pieces so that it would cook
quicker.)2 tbsp finely chopped fresh cilantro
2 ½ tbsp fresh lime juice
1 ½ tbsp olive oil
½ tsp salt
Cooking spray or additional olive oil for the pan
Salsa:
1 cup chopped plum tomato (2 should
do)2 tbsp finely chopped white onion
2 tsp fresh lime juice
¼ tsp salt
1/8 tsp black pepper
1 avocado, peeled and chopped
Additional fresh lime juice for avocado
Here’s what you do:
First you will make a marinade for
the chicken. Mix together all of the ingredients for the marinade (minus the
cooking spray or additional olive oil) and add the chicken. This is a pretty strong
marinade so only leave the chicken in for 3-5 minutes.
While the chicken is sitting in the
marinade prepare the salsa by mixing all of those ingredients together. The
avocado will go in last. Avocado has a tendency to get brown and yucky looking
pretty quickly once it is peeled so I thoroughly coated mine in additional lime
juice prior to gently mixing it into the salsa mixture. I refrigerated mine
until it was ready to use. Oh, I also added a little bit of cilantro that was leftover from the marinade. I had chopped too much and didn't want to be wasteful.
The recipe (which looks to be
originally from www.cookinglight.com)
says to cook the chicken on a grill pan. Well, we don’t have one anymore as
ours got all wonky from being used in the oven a few too many times so I just
used a large pan and sautéed it. I would think that grilling it on a George
Foreman grill would be good, too. Anyway, you want to cook the chicken until it
is cooked (165 degrees). Serve the salsa on top of your chicken and enjoy! We also had frozen corn which I mixed with leftover steamed white rice from our Chinese food from the other night. I topped my mixture with some of the salsa and it was yummy! Let me know what you think if you try it!
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